By the early 1900s, Squantum, a community of summer estates and a few farms, was gaining more full-time families. School age children had to walk more about two miles each way, or take a trolley, to the Quincy School in Atlantic. Parents banded together to advocate for a peninsula school. In 1919, a one-story, red brick classroom containing four classrooms and an assembly hall was built at a cost of about $64,000. Sixty students were expected, and 99 showed up. The school’s first Master (now known as principal) was Charles Sampson.